ABSTRACT

The article presents the result of a qualitative research with the objective of understanding and giving visibility to the experience of the Educating Neighborhood and the influence of the União de Moradores de Heliópolis and Adjacências/SP (Union of Residents’ Associations of Heliópolis and Adjacencies/SP - UNAS) in Public Policies for childhoods in that territory. Through participant research, with observations and records, in addition to conducting focus groups with educators and community leaders in the region, we sought to conduct a survey with “unevenly done” (Arroyo, 2010) subjects of that territory. The findings of focus groups with community leaders involved in childhood-oriented actions in the region indicate that the Educating Neighborhood is the result of a collective construction of integral and intersectoral education, forged in curriculum transformations and in the relationships articulated in the territory of a local municipal public school, combined with resistance and struggles for housing and for basic decent life conditions, with joint and coordinated actions conceived in the territory to be part of the Public Policies, from the local to the global, shedding light on the right to education (and to the city) as inseparable perspectives.

Keywords:
Public Policies for Childhoods; Right to Education; Educating Neighborhood; Education in Territories; Heliópolis-SP